Giving Digest | Running Home To Give Back

On 16 August, about 1,200 people put on their running shoes for the 12th AMDA Annual Caravan Run, turning movement into a way of mobilising resources for communities in Nyabwina Parish, Sheema District.

The run forms part of the wider AMDA Caravan, an initiative through which members of the Archdiocese of Mbarara Development Association return to communities with practical support. This year, the ambition is to mobilise more than UGX 500 million towards health and education interventions, including a girls’ dormitory and computer laboratory at St Thomas Secondary School. Between UGX 40 million and UGX 50 million had already been raised through the run.

And the giving did not wait for the larger Caravan to arrive. Alongside the run, a mini medical camp offered cancer screening, HIV testing and counselling, dental care and eye services, bringing preventive healthcare closer to the community. The wider Caravan is expected to reach about 6,000 people with healthcare, education support, legal aid and other community services.

There is something beautiful about a community remembering where it comes from and returning with something in its hands. A run becomes a dormitory. A registration becomes part of a computer laboratory. A morning of movement helps bring healthcare closer to someone who needs it.

Sometimes giving is also a journey home.

What would happen if more of us returned to the communities that shaped us asking, “What can I bring back?”

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